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title: Dragonfly vs Upstash Serverless Redis
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# Dragonfly vs Upstash Serverless Redis

## Pair

- **A**: Dragonfly
- **B**: Upstash Serverless Redis

## Entity A

- **Title**: [Dragonfly](https://saasspecs.com/item/dragonfly/?format=md)
- **Schema type**: Corporation
- **Website**: https://dragonflydb.io
- **Email**: support@dragonflydb.io
- **Address**: 45 Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, 6578403, Israel
- **Coordinates**: 32.0644, 34.7747
- **Deployment Link**: [Deploy Dragonfly Stack Layer](https://dragonflydb.io/cloud)

### Summary

Multi-threaded Redis-compatible in-memory datastore with 25x throughput over legacy Redis on modern hardware.

### Description

Dragonfly DB delivers Redis-compatible APIs with multi-threaded architecture for higher throughput per core. Self-host the open-source build or deploy managed Dragonfly Cloud for production workloads.

### Expert insight

Benchmark Dragonfly against your existing Redis workload before migrating; multi-threading benefits vary by key access patterns.

### Attributes

- **Free Tier Allowance**: Open Source
- **Rate Limit Cap**: Memory Bound
- **Session Lifetime**: 24 Hours
- **Overage Fee per 1k MAU**: $0
- **MFA Support**: Enforced via Dragonfly Cloud console two-factor authentication
- **Enterprise SSO SAML**: Available on Enterprise plans with SAML and organization RBAC
- **Custom Domain Support**: Dedicated instances and private networking on Enterprise tiers
- **Supported SDKs**: Redis protocol, Node.js ioredis, Python redis-py, Java Jedis, Go redigo
- **Social Providers**: GitHub OAuth for Dragonfly Cloud account login
- **Compliance Standards**: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR on Enterprise agreements
- **Webhook Fallback Policy**: Snapshot exports and replication streams with configurable failover policies

## Entity B

- **Title**: [Upstash Serverless Redis](https://saasspecs.com/item/upstash/?format=md)
- **Schema type**: Corporation
- **Website**: https://upstash.com
- **Email**: support@upstash.com
- **Address**: 535 Market Street, San Francisco, California, 94105, United States
- **Coordinates**: 37.7899, -122.4014
- **Deployment Link**: [Deploy Upstash Serverless Redis Stack Layer](https://upstash.com/pricing/redis)

### Summary

HTTP and Redis-protocol serverless datastore with per-request pricing and global edge replication.

### Description

Upstash Redis delivers durable key-value storage without managing clusters or connection pools. Pay-per-request billing aligns with serverless functions, edge workers, and bursty caching workloads.

### Expert insight

Use REST API access from edge runtimes where persistent TCP connections to classic Redis are unavailable.

### Attributes

- **Free Tier Allowance**: 10,000 Commands/Day
- **Rate Limit Cap**: 1,000 RPS
- **Session Lifetime**: 24 Hours
- **Overage Fee per 1k MAU**: 0.2 USD/100k
- **MFA Support**: Enforced via Upstash console two-factor authentication
- **Enterprise SSO SAML**: Available on Enterprise plans with SAML and team access controls
- **Custom Domain Support**: Private endpoints and VPC peering on Enterprise tiers
- **Supported SDKs**: Node.js, Python, Go, Java, REST, @upstash/redis, Kafka REST
- **Social Providers**: GitHub and Google OAuth for console authentication
- **Compliance Standards**: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR; HIPAA BAA on Enterprise agreements
- **Webhook Fallback Policy**: QStash message delivery with automatic retry and dead-letter queues

## Facts (machine-readable)

| axis | unit | a_value | b_value | a_display | b_display |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free Tier Allowance | Commands/Day |  | 10000 | Open Source | 10,000 Commands/Day |
| Rate Limit Cap | RPS |  | 1000 | Memory Bound | 1,000 RPS |
| Session Lifetime | Hours | 24 | 24 | 24 Hours | 24 Hours |
| Overage Fee per 1k MAU | USD | 0 | 0.2 | 0 USD | 0.2 USD/100k |

## Metrics

- **Free Tier Allowance**: Open Source / 10,000 Commands/Day
- **Rate Limit Cap**: Memory Bound / 1,000 RPS
- **Session Lifetime**: 24 Hours / 24 Hours
- **Overage Fee per 1k MAU**: 0 USD / 0.2 USD/100k

## Comparison context

This comparison covers the following catalog entities:

- [Dragonfly](https://saasspecs.com/item/dragonfly/?format=md) (a)
- [Upstash Serverless Redis](https://saasspecs.com/item/upstash/?format=md) (b)